I have always been very inquisitive and curious of life in general, 'though the answers you get when you look around can often be depressing. And then things happen and the balance seems to re-address itself a bit towards the positive... Happy to be alive and still curious!

Not so much 'changed' but definitely influenced. Ok, for example, Johnathan Livingson Seagull, Illusions, and A Bridge Across Forever all by Richard Bach, Momo by Michael Ende, Hands of Light by Barbra Ann Brennan, Yentl With Barbra Streisand, Gattaca, Equilibrium, Brave New World, 1984, The War Against Women, Dead Poets Society...